Advanced Materials Pandemic Taskforce (AMPT) Launches Regional Chapter Kick-Off Meeting with International Participants

June 19, 2020

The international AMPT Network announces regional chapters and Working Groups to assist with the development of COVID-19, future pandemic and public health solutions using Advanced Materials

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE (NEWSWIRE) 18 June 2020 – Advanced Materials Pandemic Task Force (AMPT) — a non-profit, public interest global initiative formed to combat the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and future public health and safety emergencies — launches its first regional kick-off meeting with international participants from 8 different countries.

Led by the AMPT Steering Committee, the Task Force will establish a framework to develop strategies, coordinate activities and bring together critical mass and resources from multidisciplinary domains, including Academia, Engineering, Life and Health Sciences, Public Health, Economics and Social Sciences. Through a resource and knowledge-sharing approach, this global network will identify current and future needs to develop and implement innovative solutions based on Advanced Materials in the pandemics and post pandemics era.

Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker, Director General of AMPT and CEO and Managing partner at C6 Advanced Material Firm notes, “I urge everyone in the Advanced Materials sector as well as Technologists, Academics, Scientists, Researchers and Commercial Organisations to join forces, get around one table, share resources and knowledge and implement and fast track science based solutions and innovations for the betterment of human life.”

By creating the AMPT Library of Knowledge by the extensive mapping of user centric needs via an expansive network of scientific labs, advanced materials companies, testing facilities, the Task Force will formulate a roadmap delineating how advanced materials solutions can be deployed at different phases of a pandemic such as COVID-19.

“We are addressing current needs as well as looking to the future, bringing together experts that are diverse in background and focus areas” says John Hoffman, Chair of the AMPT Steering Committee and CEO of GSMA, ltd, “this broad-based approach will create a ground swell of activities and bring about solutions that will pay huge dividends for society.”

Dr. Carlo Saverio Iorio, Head of the Belgium Chapter, the AMPT Roadmap Working Group and liaison to Italy Chapter adds, “We began to discuss what will happen after this wave subsides and before the next one comes? The Covid pandemic shows us that all of humanity is really one and that we need a framework large enough to encompass the well-being of people around the world.”

AMPT will provide the expert leadership and coordination required to evaluate and fast track the use of Graphene and other Advanced Materials for the prevention and management of pandemics, while developing a solution for the new wave of technological and societal needs that will arise in the aftermath of the COVID-19 global health emergency.

The AMPT Regional Members and Kick-Off Meeting Attendees included:

John Hoffman I Chair AMPT Steering Committee and CEO of GSMA ltd
Dr. Carlo Saverio Iorio I Senior Researcher at Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) Roadmap Working Group| Belgium Chapter
Dr. Lucia Gemma Delogu | Professor of Biochemistry at University of Padua (Italy) Roadmap Working Group| Italy Chapter
Dr.Vincent Bouchiat | CEO at Graphheal (France) France Chapter
Dr. Gloria Guidetti | Development Engineer at Tetra Pak (Italy) Roadmap Working Group
Dr. Baig Al-Muhit | Vanderbilt University (US) Library of Knowledge Working Group
Kazi Tasneem | Vanderbilt University (US) Library of Knowledge Working Group
Dr. Daniel Stolyarov | CEO of G6 Materials Corp (US) Applied Public Health & EHS Working Group
Manolo Almagro | Managing Director at Q Division (US) US Chapter
Liam Critchley | Science Writer at AMPT (UK) UK Chapter
Luke Somers | AMPT Knowledge Hub Advisor (US) US Chapter
Dr. Raquel Costa Almeida | Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde at Universidade do Porto (Portugal) Portugal Chapter
Kimberly King | CEO HumanTec and CoFounder Pangea Challenge US Chapter
Dr. Laetitia Gazagnes | Founder of Impuls'Innov (France) France Chapter
Ray Gibbs| Commercialization Director at Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre at Manchester University (UK) UK Chapter
Dr. Matteo Calvaresi | Associate Professor at University of Bologna (Italy) Italy Chapter
Dr. Acelya Yilmazer | Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Ankara University (Turkey) Turkey Chapter
Ben Gauthie | Technology Partner at Q Division (US) US Chapter
Alan Hill | Partner at C6 Firm (US) US Chapter

More information about AMPT may be found at;

www.AMPTnetwork.com

Participating in the non-profit Steering Committee of the AMPT Task Force is;

John Hoffman, CEO GSMA Ltd., United States
Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker, Director General of AMPT and Managing Partner at C6 Advanced Material Firm, United States
Dr. Frank Koppens, Professor and Group Leader, The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Spain
James Baker, CEO of Graphene Engineering & Innovation Center, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Dr. Antonio Castro Neto, Director of CA2DM National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Kari Hjelt, Head of Innovation Chalmers Industriteknik, Sweden
Dr. Jiaxing Huang, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University, United States